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Nonagenarian Useful Idiot

I mark Stalin’s own troubadour, Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday over at the History Examiner.

Seeger popularized fellow pinko Woody Guthrie’s tune “This Land is Your Land.” What most people don’t know is that the song was a Marxist protest song, and many performers leave out some controversial lyrics.

As I went rumbling that dusty highway I saw a sign that said “private property” But on the other side it didn’t say nothing This side was made for you and me Seeger reinserted those lyrics for his duet with Bruce Springsteen at Barack Obama’sinaugural concert.

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Mark Newgent, a 2014 Breitbart Award winner, is the editor of Watchdog Wire - Maryland, and a contributing editor to Red Maryland, the premiere blog of conservative politics in the Free State, voted one of the best state political blogs by the Washington Post two years in a row. His writing has appeared in the Baltimore Sun, Washington Examiner, National Review Online, and more.

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